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PLENTY  OF  LAND  AND  NATURAL  RESOURCES 

The  area  of  China  is  greater  than  that  of  all  the  nations 
of  Europe. 

China,  formerly  a heavy  purchaser  of  wheat,  now  has 
flour  for  export. 

China  has  one-fourth  of  the  world’s  population,  as  many 
people  as  all  the  nations  of  Europe. 

Not  one  man  in  ten  can  read. 

Not  one  woman  in  a thousand  can  read. 


China 


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bund  her 


God  must  have  loved  the  common 
people  because  He  made  so  many 
' of  them.” 

He  must  have  loved  the  400,000,000  Chinese! 

Even  the  rivers  teem  with  little  boats — the 
homes  of  hundreds  of  families,  who  dump  refuse 
into  the  water.  And  in  the  river  cities  the  pop- 
ulation drinks  river  water,  dipped  out  in  buckets  I 

Graves  everywhere!  In  most  great  centers,  to 
secure  ground  for  any  large  institution,  every  grave 
on  the  site  must  be  bought  up.  The  bones  of  an 
ancestor — dead  for  hundreds  of  years  perhaps — are 
carried  in  a covered  jar  to  some  more  obscure 
burying  place. 

The  rights  of  the  living  have  often  been  mort- 
gaged for  the  rites  of  the  dead,  but  in  the  new 
China  the  living  will  come  into  their  own. 


Religions 


Yet  not  one  with  vital  power! 


For  centuries  the  altar  of  the  Temple 
of  Heaven  typified  the  highest  ideas 
of  God  among  the  Chinese.  Upon 
this  altar,  under  the  skies,  the  Emperor 
presented  thank-offerings  in  behalf  of  his 
people. 

Every  non-Christian  Chinese  wor- 
ships the  ancestral  tablets  of  his  family. 
This  custom  is  at  the  root  of  some  of  the 
most  difficult  social  problems. 

The  great  sage  Confucius  called  him- 
self “a  transmitter,  not  a maker”  of 
religion,  yet  for  nearly  two  thousand 
years  his  tablet  has  been  worshipped  by 
Chinese  students. 


The  common  people,  failing  to  realize 
the  lofty  ideals  of  Confucianism,  and  un- 
able to  stand  the  expense  of  all  the  rites 
of  ancestral  worship,  have  become  victims 
of  Taoism  and  Buddhism.  In  case  of  a 
death  in  the  family,  these  yellow-capped 
Taoist  priests  are  called  in  to  chant  for 
the  soul  of  the  departed. 

The  Buddhist  doctrine  of  the  trans- 
migration of  souls  is  shown  above  in  a 
Chinese  painting.  The  wheel  of  destiny 
may  transform  one  into  a creeping  ani- 
mal. Or  a woman  who  has  been  very  good 
may  become  a man  in  the  next  world ! 


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A hundred  years  ago  a man  made  his  appearance  in  China  with  the  story  of  a 
new  civilization— a new  God — new  hope — a Christ.  He  was  the  fore-runner  of  a 
mighty  army,  a powerful  force  that  opened  China  to  education,  to  the  products  of 
our  mills  and  factories,  to  the  ideas  of  the  Great  Free  West — to  Christianity. 


Unburied  dead  sometimes  dotted  the  towns  with  little  brick  sheds  like  this  one. 
The  bereaved  were  waiting  till  all  the  omens  agreed  on  an  auspicious  day  for 
their  interment. 


After  Dark 


It  was  hard  work  to  teach  sanitation  to  people  who  lived  like  this.  Whose  streets 
were  also  their  sewers.  Whose  rivers  were  also  their  water  conduits. 


It  was  hard  work  to  convince  people  like  these  that  the  importance  they  attached 
to  the  graves  of  their  dead  was  a weak  spot  in  their  national  life. 


The  Greatest  Market  in 


CHINA  needs  only 
to  be  shown  the 
ways  of  the  West 
and  she’ll  become  the 
West’s  best  customer. 

Compare  this  plow  with 
a modern  tractor.  How 
long  would  a normal, 
human  farmer  — be  he 
Chinese  or  American  — 
continue  to  use  the  old 
plow  after  he  had  been 
shown  the  ways  of  a 
tractor? 

Ho  w long  can  this  six-foot  power  pump  stand  against  the 
competition  of  such  enginery  as  America  uses  for  irrigation? 

Gangs  of  coolies,  straining  at  the  ropes,  pull  junks  up-river 
against  the  current.  As  they  scramble  over  the  rocky  path 
along  the  steep  shores,  their  cables  wear  away  crevices  in 


he  World 


the  boulders.  Those  crevices  are 
generations  deep. 

People  in  China  don’t  cling 
to  methods  like  that  because 
they  prefer  them.  They  “eat 
up”  any  improvements  they  are 
“shown.” 

The  West  is  slow  to  realize  that  the  industrial  develop- 
ment of  China  will  be  a world  move  — a great  impetus  to 
commerce,  industry,  enterprise  and  invention  felt  by  all  the 
nations. 


Education 

From  the  three  R’s  up 
to  the  college  of  sciences 
and  ’ologies.  That  is  an 
outline  of  our  program  of 
Christian  education  in  China. 

We  have  established  598 
primary  day  schools,  in  which 
hundreds  of  youngsters  begin 
their  education.  Here  we  see 
a roomful  of  little  Chinese, 
struggling  with  the  gentle 
art  of — not  penmanship — but 
brushmanship. 


from  A to  Z 


SKIPPING  up  through 
the  20  boarding  high 
schools  and  10  inter- 
mediate schools,  we  come  to 
the  4 Union  Universities  in 
which  Methodists  cooperate. 
The  scientific  training  received 
in  the  laboratories  and  class 
rooms  of  these  Universities  is 
carrying  the  New  China  for- 
ward by  leaps  and  bounds. 

Education  was  China^s  first- 
felt  need  ! 


Educatior 


PLENTY  of  raw  material  in  the 
form  of  school  children.  What 
will  education— ed- 
ucation—do  for  them?  Here  are 
some  examples  of  what  it  can  do. 

Dr.  Mary  Stone  is  a graduate  of 
a Methodist  mission  school.  After 
coming  to  America  for  an  M.  D., 
she  returned  to  Kiukiang  to  take 
charge  of  a hospital. 

Uong  Gang  Huo  was  one  of  the 
many  Chinese  boys  first  lured  to  a 
Christian  school  by  his  desire  to 
learn  English.  After  a college 
career  in  America,  he  is  pastor  of  a 
growing  institutional  church  in 
Eoochow  and  a leader  among  the 
officials  and  students. 


4 MOST  encouraging  “product” 
ZA  of  Christian  education  is  Dr. 
^ ^ C.  T.  Wang.  Though  vice- 
president  of  the  senate  representing 
the  southern  faction  in  China,  he 
was  chosen  to  help  voice  the  in- 
terests of  both  North  and  South  at 
the  Peace  Table. 


vill  do  in  Chi 


^~^EE  the  pin  cushion! 

No.  You’re  wrong.  It’s  an  M.D.’s 
graphic  advertisement.  It  demon- 
strates the  number  of  spots  he  knows  how 
to  puncture  you  in.  A jab  with  the  needle 
lets  out  the  devil  that’s  kicking  up  the  in- 
ternal row. 


rThe  Chinese  M.D. 

THAT’S  in  China.  Some  of  the  old  medicinal  practice  achieves  remarkable 
results,  but  much  of  it  is  absurd  quackery. 

' If  it  came  to  a choice  between  a “needle  doctor’’  and  a regular  doctor, 

we’d  choose  the  one  who  didn’t  advertise.  This  man,  heading  the  lock-step  pro- 
cession, evidently  feels  as  we  do.  Having  been  cured  of  blindness  himself,  he 
is  leading  other  blind  men  to  the  “foreign  doctor.’’ 


Swinging  along  the  streets  comes  this  ambulance.  The  ambulance  has  two 
speeds,  one  forward  and  one  aft.  But  all  the  speed  of  the  hospital  is  forward 
toward  the  day  when  the  graduates  of  its  medical  school  will  go  forth  in  suffi- 
cient numbers  to  put  the  “needle  doctors’’  out  of  business. 


Another  of  China  s great  needs! 


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PRACTITIONERS  of 
the  old  school  of  Chinese 
medicine  agreed  with 
Darwin.  Only  the  “fittest” 
should  survive. 

Some  time  ago,  during  an 
epidemic  of  diphtheria,  the 
public  was  advised  to  “use 
women’s  toe-nails,  bamboo 
pith  and  bedbugs;  grind  to  a 
powder  and  sprinkle  in  the 
throat.” 

Only  the  fittest  could  survive. 

Our  medical  missionaries 
must  always  overcome  such 
pathetic  and  tragic  igno- 
rance. 

A national  aversion  to 
bathing  and  the  common 
unwise  use  of  plasters  make 
skin  diseases  among  the 


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Chinese  very  numerous, 
common  and  virulent. 
Typhus  follows  in  the 
trail  of  the  frequent  fam- 
ines. Small-pox  and  tu- 
berculosis are  always 
present.  Seven  out  of  ten 
babies  die. 

Drawn  up  against 
these  ravaging  foes  are 
our  11  hospitals,  which 
relieve  150,000  to  200,000 
suffering  people  each 
year.  Cases  are  cited 
of  total  blindness  cured 
by  skillful  operations, 
festering  sores  healed  by 
clean  treatment,  tumors 
removed  successfully. 

Enough  of  this  and 
China  will  be  well. 


The  Greatest 


HRISTIANITY! 

When  Christ  becomes  the  corner-stone  of  the  social  structure,  age-old 
customs  crumble  and  a new  superstructure  rises. 


AFTER  years  of  Christian  agitation 
against  foot-binding,  Chinese  lead- 
^ ^ ers  themselves  undertook  this  re- 

form. “Golden  lily  feet”  are  now  entirely 
out  of  style,  though  thousands  of  women 
and  girls  in  the  country  don’t  know  it. 


Need  of  All 


The  Chinese  and  the  missionaries  have  stood  shoulder  to  shoulder  in  the  fight 
against  opium.  Millions  of  dollars’  worth  of  opium  and  opium  pipes  have 
gone  up  in  smoke  to  celebrate  victories  in  the  movement. 

This  great  dragon  procession  is  a protest  against  the  national  curse  of  gambling. 

We  may  look  upon  the  monument  to  the  first  martyrs  of  the  revolution  as  a 
milestone  on  the  forward  march  of  Christianity.  The  first  president  of  the 
Chinese  Republic  credited  Christian  missions  with  being  the  underlying  cause  of 
the  revolution  which  overthrew  the  monarchy.  Many  revolutionists  and  reformers 
have  not  been  Christians,  yet  the  Christian  religion  with  its  freedom 
of  thought  has  inspired  many  kinds  of  reform. 


Missionary 


Yet  the  Christianizing  of  a nation  is  more  than  the 
conversion  of  individuals.  The  missionary’s  task  is 
to  help  train  leaders  of  leaders. 

Yuan  Shih  Kai,  the  first  president  of  the  Chinese 
Republic,  said:  I amnot  a Christian.  lamaCon- 
fucianist.  But  Confucianism  is  not  strong  enough  for 
the  crisis  which  is  upon  us.  Only  Christ  can  save 
China.'’ 

In  these  days  of  changing  China,  there  is  especial 
need  of  Christian  statesmen. 


This  pioneer  Meth- 
odist preacher  is 
the  kind  of  “mis- 
sionary result”  that 
people  natura’lly  look 
for.  Many  young  men 
— “hot  hearted”  and 
cool  headed  young  men 
— have  refused  tempting 
offers  of  larger  salaries 
and  easier  jobs  that 
they  might  spread  the 
Message. 


Results  in  China 

AND  so  we  like  to  look  upon  the  men  pictured  here  as  particularly  gratifying 
AA  “missionary  results.”  They  are  four  of  the  present-day  leaders  of  China, 
and  they  are  all  Christians  ! 


At  the  left  is  Mr.  Chang  Po-ling,  one  of  the  foremost  educators  in  China.  Standing 
together  are  General  Chang,  former  military  advisor  to  the  Chinese  government, 
and  Mr.  Chin,  legal  advisor  to  Yuan  Shih  Kai.  At  the  extreme  right  is  Mr.  Wen, 
minister  of  foreign  affairs  in  the  Chekiang  Province. 

Three  of  the  men  whom  China  has  chosen  as  ministers  to  western  nations  have 
come  from  Christian  schools.  One  of  the  representatives  of  China  at  the  Peace  Con- 
ference in  Paris  is  a graduate  of  a mission  school.  Think  what  that  means! 


Which? 


The  Idea  Behind  This  or 


Superstition— Stagnation— Social 
Destruction.  The  effects  of 
degenerate  Buddhism,  one  of 
China’s  three  religions. 


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China's 


CHINA’S  millions  have  long  been 
finding  an  outlet  all  over  the 
Pacific  basin. 

The  Chinese  are  the  greatest  stabi- 
lizing force  in  the  Far  East. 

The  vigorous  new  life  of  the  Settle- 
ments acts  and  reacts  upon  old  China. 
The  first  revolution,  which  resulted  in 
the  founding  of  the  Republic,  was  fi- 
nanced largely  by  the  southern  colonists. 

In  the  automobile  is  Dr.  Chen  Su  Lan, 
a product  of  Chinese  Christian  educa- 
tion, transplanted  in  Singapore.  In  that 
great  center,  he  constantly  exerts  a 
potent  influence  for  Christ. 

The  other  side  of  the  story  is  the 
materialism  which  always  threatens 
these  seekers  of  a new  destiny. 

It  is  up  to  the  Christians  of  America 
to  see  that  China’s  overflow  carries 
Christianity  with  it. 


The  Rev.  Benjamin 
Pay  (right)  pastor  of 
the  Chinese  church  in 
Manila,  is  a graduate 
of  a mission  college 
in  China 


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This  substantial  little 
Chinese  church  in  the 
Straits  Settlements,  is 
built  on  ground  giv'en 
bv  a reformed  opium- 
smoker. 


Boatload  of  emigrants 
leaving  Hinghwa  to 
seek  their  fortune  in 
Sibu,  Borneo.  With 
them  went  the  youn 
pastor  pictured  at  the 
upper  left 


Coming  out  of 


Not  many  gen- 
erations ago 
the  barriers  to 
the  education  of  wo- 
men in  the  East  were 
well-nigh  insurmount- 
able. To-day  a Chi- 
nese woman  is  an  am- 
bulance surgeon  at  a 
New  York  Hospital. 

In  the  past  China 
shut  herself  in  behind 
her  walls,  and  ignored 
the  world.  She  be- 
came known  as  the 
pacifist  nation,  because 


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photographs  from  Western  Newspaper 
Union  and  French  Pictorial  Seriice 


Her  Shell 


of  her  indifference  to  world 
movements.  But  in  the  re- 
cent world  war  there  were 
Chinese  troops  and  labor 
battalions  with  the  armies  in 
France  and  in  Egypt.  The 
curiosity  that  a war  correspon- 
dent’s camera  aroused  in  the 
group  below  is  typical  of 
China’s  attitude  towards 
“new  things.” 

Education  will  help  young 
China  to  surmount  the  old 
walls.  The  Hermit  Giant 
has  become  one  of  the  new- 
est Republics.  The  oldest 
Republic  should  offer  a 
friendly  hand. 


Is  It  Worth 


Read  across  the  top  of  these  pages.  Get  the  story  told  in  each 

picture.  The  story  of  the  missionary’s  coming.  Of  how  he  told  the  people 
of  Christ.  Of  how,  through  schools,  hospitals  and  churches,  he  taught  them 
of  His  love.  So  that  a new  ideal  of  Woman  and  of  Home  sprang  up  among  the 
people.  So  that  little  Chinese  kidlets  get  a straight  start  in  life,  and  grow  up  into 
regular  citizens,  capable  of  carrying  forward  the  torch  of  Christian  civilization  that 
has  been  put  into  their  hands  by  the  missionary. 


While  ? 


Then  read  across  the  bottom  OE  the  pages,  it’s  a pathetic 

tale  of  sights  familiar  among  the  lower  classes.  In  which  babies  are  blinded  for 
life  by  ignorance  of  common  cleanliness.  In  which  floods  and  famine  recur 
regularly  as  a result  of  ignorance  and  a lack  of  far-seeing  public  officials.  In  which 
unhappy  economic  conditions  make  a wealth  of  beggars.  And  to  many  of  the  common 
people  life  is  a drab  span  of  misery  with  nothing  to  enliven  it  but  a feast  day  celebra- 
tion. Compare  these  two  stories  and  ask  yourself — IS  IT  WORTH  WHILE  ? 


The  Obligati onj 


IN  stating  her  reasons  for  entering  the  war  America 
gave  voice  to  some  fine  altruism.  We  were  in  it,  not 
for  what  we  could  get  out  of  it,  but  for  what  we  could 
make  it — namely,  a Crusade.  A righteous  war  fought 
for  a righteous  cause. 


World  emancipation.  The  safety  of  democratic 
institutions.  Liberty.  The  erasure  of  the  fester  spots 
that  blemish  the  face  of  the  world.  Man  everywhere 
must  be  made  to  recognize  man’s  equality — his  right  to 
come  and  go  and  do  as  he  pleases  as  long  as  he  observes 
the  common  laws  of  humanity.  Weak  peoples,  little 
peoples,  far-away  peoples  and  oppressed  peoples  are  to 
have  their  day.  A conscience  standard  for  the  world. 

Well,  we  won! 

And  victory  entails  obligations. 

The  world  is  only  a little  safer  for  democracy  than 
before.  The  task  of  reducing  those  sonorous  abstrac- 
tions to  a Christian  democracy  made  vital  and  practical 
is  still  before  us. 

World  relationships  may  be  adjusted  by  the  League 
of  Nations,  but  there  are  things  that  the  Peace  Table 
cannot  do  for  China. 


o|  Victory 


CHINA  is  more  than  a nation— it  is  a race.  In  help- 
ing China  we  are  helping  a whole  people  to  find 
their  way  into  the  light  of  self-hood.  Inspiring  a 
quarter  of  the  world  to  put  their  dormant  strength  to  work 
that  their  power  may  speed  the  wheels  of  world  progress. 

The  new  world-wide  fellow  feeling  will  not  allow 
China  to  sink  in  the  mire  of  commercialism.  The  world- 
conscience  will  not  see  China  exploited  by  an  unscrupu- 
lous minority.  Man’s  new  humanity  to  man  will  defeat 
the  brewers  who  propose  to  foist  their  wares  upon  China 
when  the  rest  of  the  world  “goes  dry.” 

Never  before  were  the  doctrines  of  Christianity  so 
universally  applied  to  international  relationship  and  to 
statesmanship.  Christianity  has  never  been  so  large  a 
factor  in  the  field  of  industry  and  commerce. 

It  is  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  will  bring  freedom — 
political,  economic  and  religious  freedom — to  all  the 
peoples  of  the  world. 

It  is  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  will  fill  the  Centenary 
coffers  to  overflowing,  that  brotherly  love  and  peace  and 
helpfulness  and  true  democracy  may  be  spread  broad- 
cast throughout  the  world. 


What  We  Propose  to  Dc 


WHAT  WE  r 


PROPERTY 

10  Institutional  churches  ...... 

382  City  and  village  churches  ...... 

12  Missionary  residences  ...... 

53  Native  workers’  residences  ...... 

Buildings,  land,  equipment  for  above  .... 

$1,061,075 


Additional  buildings  and  equipment  for  four  university 
centers — Peking,  Nanking,  Fukien,  West  China. 


21 

Secondary  schools — added  equipment  . 

• 

328 

Primary  schools — model  day  school  buildings,  etc. 

• 

35 

Teachers’  residences  ...... 

1,879,007 

13 

Hospitals — additional  buildings  and  equipment  . 

.13 

Dispensaries  ....... 

. 

9 

Doctors’  residences  ...... 

660,300 

Total  property  and  equipment  . 

. $3,600,382 

Endowment  ....... 

. 1,806,667 

with  the  Centenary  Gift 


Begging 

Have  you  a little  shaver  in  your  home?  And  has  he  learned  the  trick 
of  waiting  for  the  psychological,  after-dinner  moment — before  you  bury 
yourself  in  the  evening  paper — to  ask  you  for  something  he  wants  very 
much  ? And,  looking  into  his  hopeful  eyes,  you  “fall  for  it”  every  time.  Because 
he’s  yours,  and  you  love  him. 

And  have  you  ever  been  through  a spell  of  sickness  in  your  house?  Which 
began  with  hot,  feverish  little  hands,  and  a droopy  little  head? 

Do  you  recall  how  those  baby  eyes  dragged  open,  and  lifted  to  you  with  an 
agonized  look,  pleading  for  help  from  the  Dad  who  never  refused  anything? 

And  you  couldn’t  give  him  the  relief  from  pain  he  mutely  begged  for.  Your 
eyelids  smarted  and  your  throat  closed  and  you  ducked  out  of  the  room  away 
from  those  begging  eyes. 

Do  you  recall  the  glow  of  satisfaction  that  warmed  your  heart  when  you  gave 
over  your  baby  to  the  charge  of  competent  doctors  and  starchy  nurses?  And 
you  saw  the  begging  eyes  begin  to  twinkle  again? 


IN  China  there  are  hundreds— thousands— 
of  such*;^  begging  eyes.  And  a little 
Chinese  feller’s  father,  when  he  has  paid  a 
needle  doctor  and  made  offerings  to  a stone 
god,  has  done  the  best  he  knows  how.  But  a 
lump  fills  his  throat,  too,  at  the  dumb  plea 
he  cannot  answer. 


That  situation  appeals  to  those  of  us 


who  are  fathers,  and  to  those  of  us 
who  put  our  faith  in  the  doctors  and 
nurses.  Because  so  much  baby  sick- 
ness in  China  ends  the 
same  tragic  way,  for  lack 
of  doctors  and  nurses. 


x)o  if 


S.  EARL  TAYLOR 

This  is  perhaps  the  most  critical  hour  in  the  history  of  the 
Church.  Enormous  masses  of  men  are  threatening  to 
shape  up  a social  and  political  program  for  the  future 
without  any  consideration  for  the  Church;  and,  unless  the 
Church  can  come  into  closer,  more  human  touch  with  these 
armies  of  radical-minded  men,  and  with  a world  program  that 
will  command  their  sympathetic  attention,  the  Church  is  lost. 
On  the  other  hand,  there  is  the  opportunity,  an  opportunity 
unmatched  in  all  the  centuries,  to  help  reconstruct  the  whole 
world  on  a truly  Christian  democratic  basis.” 


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